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  • We started our investigation into the man I school Haj Abdallah.

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  • He started with tracking down the new caliph, a job that comes with great personal risk for his own safety.

  • He's asked us not to identify him.

  • Famous for planting spies inside Isis, the Falcons play a key role in the fight against the extremists.

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  • How did your mama Abu Maza Woodman's O'Steen Haj Abdallah was born in this small town in 1976.

  • This is his original nationality certificates.

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  • He was part of a large family.

  • People here still remember them.

  • They were educated on were respected.

  • But despite his home life, Abdullah was thought to be radicalized by local groups.

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  • In fact, most of the military and security leadership off ISS come from these areas, especially from the nearby city off the lava.

  • By 2000 and three when US led forces invaded Iraq, Haj Abdallah was already involved with the smaller jihadist groups.

  • But like so many others, he had grieved them to join a much bigger Operation Al Qaeda.

  • As you are descended into violence.

  • Abdullah's religious education on long history of working with extremist groups Mentee quickly became a leading man.

  • This grainy image was the only picture the government heard of him that waas until his arrest.

  • A year later, in 2000 and eight, the Americans detained him in book A prism.

  • For months, Abdullah was interrogated by the American forces.

  • They say he gave them information on dozens of iris members, something we haven't managed to verify ourselves.

  • By the beginning of 2000 and 10, Abdullah was released.

  • He quickly joined Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of Isis Amel, Aidan Sherry in FEMA.

  • Half of that Ninawa weighted average cost Bamaca Robin Minal Khalifah Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in May 2000 and 12, Abdullah received a new idea.

  • His appearance slightly changed.

  • This was said to be one of the last photographs the government would take off him.

  • The bulk of the American forces had withdrawn from Iraq.

  • Given ice time to rebuild with unpopular government, the group started to grow its membership.

  • Someone who witnessed that expansion was this man a security leader and noise He is now imprisoned by Iraqi intelligence on it has become a valuable informal No Um other Abdullah Cordish.

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  • Amir Mohammad Syed Abdur Rahman.

  • We've kept his identity secret.

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  • This informer says he met Haj Abdallah several times.

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  • As I s ambitions expanded, Haj Abdallah took on the role of Justice minister overseeing executions on gruesome punishments.

  • When I entered the town of Sinjar in 2000 and 14, we saw the brutality and growing influence of Abdullah.

  • They killed thousands of members off the ZD minority group.

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  • But the question off, what to do with the needy Women divided ice under their own interpretation of Islamic Sharia hollow.

  • Some wanted to enslave the women.

  • One man who witnessed the dispute in Isis is Salam al Jubouri.

  • He was a companion off the then leader of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.

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  • Will you and say their crimes amounted to genocide As I is threatened to spread its brutality to measure cities like Erbil and Baghdad, The international community started toe as the bombing continues money top leaders were killed pushing Haj Abdallah further off the chain.

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  • For how well your body Sure or Xer Ellen Show fee by 2000 and 17 The north of Iraq's second city spells the beginning off the end of wise the continuous threat off airstrikes wa slowly pushing the route back.

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  • In October 2000 and 17, al Baghdadi and Haj Abdallah crossed into the Syrian city of Albu Kamal, where they were almost killed by an airstrike.

  • Just a bit generally, uh, they had cuts off, even, uh, about a city and a shovel after yesterday or today And, uh, Adams tonight, with its leadership under constant threat, I was finally retreated to the small Syrian town of lobbies.

  • It's here that the s caliphate finally ended in 2000 and 19.

  • Thousands of fighters and their families surrounded.

  • Al Baghdadi appeared in a video a few months later from his secret hideaway in Idlib, northern Syria.

  • Haj Abdallah is believed to be one off three people who appeared in the video, their faces blurred by ice.

  • During this time, he was already being room to become a possible leader.

  • Then, on the 26th off October 2000 and 19, what seemed like the inevitable happened, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was killed in an American raid, giving Haj Abdallah his chance to become leader.

  • This is how Abdullah appeared in his last photo before he disappeared in 2012.

  • Iraqi intelligence say that he is currently hiding in northern Syria, possibly in the areas controlled by the Kurdish forces, along with a group of Iraqi leaders is working to rebuild the organization, taking the advantage off the sense of injustice among Sunni population in Iraq and Syria.

  • It's a process that may take many years.

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